He wiped his mouth with a handkerchief and said, "Take him to the front hall and wait."
The butler said respectfully: "Yes!"
Father Ruan was taken to the front hall and waited for half a day before he saw Prince Jin who had arrived late.
His daughter dared to act willfully and impulsively towards Prince Jin, but he didn't dare to do that.
He bowed respectfully, "Greetings, Your Majesty!"
Liang Yujun walked to the first seat and sat down, "What's up?"
Father Ruan's face was filled with smiles. "The princess has been talking about missing you, so I came to ask when you will send someone to bring her back."
It's not good for his daughter to stay at her parents' home all the time. Now people outside are starting to spread rumors, saying that his daughter has fallen out of favor or something like that.
Moreover, his arrogant daughter acted arrogantly at home, demanding the best things and food, and she also suppressed and bullied his concubine and illegitimate son.
She brought back an even more unruly and willful granddaughter. The whole family was so annoyed that they wanted to send her back immediately.
Liang Yujun picked up the tea that the maid had just served and asked playfully, "Didn't she tell you why I wanted to send her back to her parents' home?"
When Mr. Ruan heard this, he realized that things were not what he had thought before.
He said truthfully: "She said that she had a small conflict with the prince, so she went back to her parents' home to live for a while."
Liang Yujun blew on the tea, took a sip slowly, and then said, "Small conflict? It's amazing that she could bring that up."
"I sent her back to her parents' home because I had abolished her position as princess consort. To be more precise, I divorced her."
"What qualifications does she have to return to the palace?"
Ruan's father was shocked, "What? Divorced."
How is this possible? Doesn't the prince love his daughter to the extreme?
His daughter had been behaving recklessly and arrogantly before, but Prince Jin had always indulged her.
Liang Yujun said: "Yes, let's stop!"
"She committed a crime in Heyang County. If it weren't for me, she and her vicious daughter would have been imprisoned or exiled."
"Divorcing her is the easiest thing to do."
He briefly talked about how Ruan Songling and her daughter had someone set fire to Xiao Hanzheng and Shi Qingluo.
"As a price for not going to jail or exile, Ruan Songling and your Ruan family must build a cement road from Heyang County to the capital."
"I have asked the butler to check Ruan Songling's private property and all her gold and silver jewelry. It is not enough to pay for the road repair."
"My people have calculated that in addition to Ruan Songling's money, your Ruan family will have to come up with 300,000 taels of silver."
"I originally sent someone to notify you to collect the money as soon as possible these two days. Now that you have come here yourself, you should go and get it done as soon as possible."
He had someone send Ruan Songling home before, and deliberately did not mention the matter of deposing her from the title of princess and divorcing her.
The purpose is to let Ruan Songling and her daughter continue to abuse their power in her mother's home, so that when the people in the Ruan family know about this, the two of them will retaliate even more severely.
Except for the silver, money and jewelry that Ruan Songling and Liang Mingmin were taking to Heyang County, he asked the housekeeper to clear out everything in the palace.
When the time comes, use it to repair the road.
He was actually a little surprised, because all the property of Ruan Songling and Liang Mingmin combined was worth over one million taels.
Ruan Songling had several secret compartments built in the room and placed a lot of gold and silver bills in them.
The property of the two of them alone was actually enough to build the road, but he naturally would not let the Ruan family go.
Over the years, the Ruan family has gained a lot of benefits by relying on the palace.
He asked someone to check the amount of money the Ruan family could come up with, and found that it was about 200,000 taels, so he asked for 300,000 taels. He had to ask the Ruan family to sell their shops and land to raise another 100,000 taels.
This would be like cutting off the flesh of the Ruan family. The people of the Ruan family will definitely hate Ruan Songling.
Father Ruan didn't expect this to happen. His legs went weak and he immediately knelt on the ground. "Your Majesty, the princess didn't mean it. She already knows she was wrong. Please forgive her this time."
"After I return, I will make sure she learns the rules for women and becomes a qualified princess so that she won't make such a mistake again."
Liang Yujun threw the teacup in his hand towards Ruan's father, "What princess? She is just a cheap woman who was divorced by this king."
Father Ruan didn't dare to hide, and he couldn't avoid it with his fat body, so he was splashed with scalding water in the face and body, but he gritted his teeth and didn't dare to scream.
Liang Yujun stood up and snorted, "Usually she acts arrogantly in the palace, and I don't bother to pay attention to her."
"But she still wanted to cheat on me. She secretly went to Heyang County to find King Yi and even wanted to kill Princess Fubao, who was just conferred by the emperor, and the officials appointed by the court."
"Do you think that this prince and this Jin Palace can still accommodate them?"
He walked up to Ruan's father and looked down at him, "If you, the Ruan family, don't send 300,000 taels within ten days, you and your entire family will be exiled together."
"I will keep my word. If you don't believe me, you can try it."
Father Ruan didn't expect that Prince Jin, who was always kind and cheerful, would change his face like this.
After hearing what Prince Jin said, he was so frightened that his whole body went limp.
He knew a little that Ruan Songling liked King Yi before she got married, but he never expected that after so many years, his daughter was still thinking about King Yi.
She even bolder ran to Heyang County to find King Yi. No wonder King Jin was so angry and wanted to divorce her.
If it were an ordinary man, he would not be able to stand being cuckolded, let alone the most honorable King Jin of Northern Frontier.
He secretly cursed Ruan Songling, his once most proud daughter, and continued to plead with Prince Jin.
But Prince Jin ignored him completely, issued a final ultimatum and left.
After a while, Mr. Ruan got up and left at the cold urging of the housekeeper.
The butler's attitude was completely different from before. When he left, he even stuffed him a divorce letter written by Prince Jin, pushed him out on purpose, and then slammed the door behind him.
Father Ruan was extremely angry, but he didn't dare to curse or say anything.
When he opened the divorce letter that was stuffed in his pocket, he had only one thought in his mind: it's over.
Looking at the butler's attitude, it is clear that his daughter is completely disliked by Prince Jin.
Father Ruan returned home in a carriage and went to the backyard angrily.
As soon as he entered the room, he saw his wife and Ruan Songling half lying on soft chairs, being served by his concubines.
Several illegitimate sons' wives were being punished to kneel, and his new concubine, who had been married not long ago, was being slapped by a maid.
Ruan Songling was drinking bird's nest, but she was complaining about why it wasn't blood bird's nest.
Father Ruan became even more furious upon seeing this and walked in with a furious look on his face.
Mother Ruan glanced at him and said, "Master, what's wrong with you? If you want to be so disrespectful, just leave. If someone doesn't know, they might think you are unhappy that your daughter is going back to her parents' home."
Since she had her daughter's support, she became more confident. Not only did she control Ruan's father, but she also controlled all the concubines in the courtyard.
Her daughter is her strength.
Father Ruan couldn't stand his wife riding on his head any longer, and he couldn't help but walk over and slap her in the face, "You raised such a good daughter, but she is so shameless."
(End of this chapter)
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